Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit on behalf of California against President Donald Trump’s administration after the governor said the president deployed National Guard troops in California without Newsom’s consent.The Democratic governor announced his intention to take legal action against the Trump administration after weekend clashes between protesters and federal immigration authorities over Trump’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles.”He knowingly went in in a reckless way. Did something that’s almost without precedent in our lifetime. Unconstitutional. Illegal. Immoral,” Gov. Newsom said in an interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen.Now, the Pentagon is expected to send several hundred Marines to the city to assist National Guard members responding to immigration protests.The president ordered at least 2,000 National Guard troops to play a supporting role in Los Angeles for 60 days or at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense. President Trump cited a legal provision that allows him to mobilize federal service members when there’s “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion.” “We sent out the troops and they’ve done a fantastic job,” the president said during an Invest in America roundtable.The Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 118 immigrants during its Los Angeles operations.Legal experts say it is highly unusual for the president to deploy troops on U.S. soil without a governor’s consent. Laura Dickinson from George Washington University Law School explained, “The Constitution provides that states are really the ones that are responsible for dealing with crime and unrest and domestic disturbance in the first instance.” She also warned, “I think there’s a signal there that the President could potentially try to send the National Guard under federal control to other states in similar situations.”The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama.
Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit on behalf of California against President Donald Trump’s administration after the governor said the president deployed National Guard troops in California without Newsom’s consent.
The Democratic governor announced his intention to take legal action against the Trump administration after weekend clashes between protesters and federal immigration authorities over Trump’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles.
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“He knowingly went in in a reckless way. Did something that’s almost without precedent in our lifetime. Unconstitutional. Illegal. Immoral,” Gov. Newsom said in an interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen.
Now, the Pentagon is expected to send several hundred Marines to the city to assist National Guard members responding to immigration protests.
The president ordered at least 2,000 National Guard troops to play a supporting role in Los Angeles for 60 days or at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense. President Trump cited a legal provision that allows him to mobilize federal service members when there’s “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion.”
“We sent out the troops and they’ve done a fantastic job,” the president said during an Invest in America roundtable.
The Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 118 immigrants during its Los Angeles operations.
Legal experts say it is highly unusual for the president to deploy troops on U.S. soil without a governor’s consent.
Laura Dickinson from George Washington University Law School explained, “The Constitution provides that states are really the ones that are responsible for dealing with crime and unrest and domestic disturbance in the first instance.” She also warned, “I think there’s a signal there that the President could potentially try to send the National Guard under federal control to other states in similar situations.”
The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama.
